giggle

present singular third person giggles · participle present giggling · participle past giggled · past giggled

1. To laugh gently in a playful, nervous, or affected manner.

   I couldn't resist to giggle a little tee hee.

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   The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.

   Synonyms: titter, laugh

plural giggles

1. A high-pitched, silly laugh.

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   My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!

   1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77

   Synonyms: titter

2. informalFun; an amusing episode.

   We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles.

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   The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party.

   For my first English breakfast I had kippers and pink champagne - what a combination, still it was a bit of a giggle and I know I've really arrived.

   2013, Patricia Newell-Dunkley, Letters of a Travelling Lady, page 16

   Synonyms: amusement, fun, a joke, a laugh, laughs